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Re: Bug#177272: apt: should respect DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive



Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Uh. The dpkg/methods script is ment to be used with dselect and really is
> intrinsically interactive.
> 
> If you think base-config should not be prompting then it probably should
> be patched to call apt-get directly. Your patch does not include any
> options to make apt-get non-interactive (which would be insanely
> dangerous) so it's mostly ineffective IMO. 

Jason's entirely right, and I filed a bug on base-config myself a while
ago to remind me to write its own apt wrapper script. It doesn't really
need much of a wrapper anyhow.

-- 
see shy jo

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